It’s “An Incon­ve­nient Truth” of poverty issues. The Aus­tralian char­ity Global Poverty Project is pro­duc­ing a movie that hopes to get peo­ple talk­ing about poverty, just as Al Gore’s movie did for global warming.

From the ABC we are intro­duced to the Global Poverty Project and it’s founder Hugh Evans.

“There are lots of peo­ple talk­ing about extreme poverty but there isn’t a coher­ent nar­ra­tive or con­ver­sa­tion around how we can end it within our life­time,” the human­i­tar­ian and activist told ABC News Online.

“I wanted to work with a team of experts around the world to cre­ate a ground­break­ing pre­sen­ta­tion that com­mu­ni­cates how we can actu­ally end extreme poverty within our life­time, in such a way that any­one can sit though this 90-minute pre­sen­ta­tion and be equally com­pelled and chal­lenged, but also raise a debate.”

Evans — who is also an author, co-chaired the Youth 2020 Sum­mit and was among Who Magazine’s Most Beau­ti­ful Peo­ple this year — wants you to lis­ten, for 90 min­utes to be exact.

And when Evans wants you to lis­ten, a lot of impor­tant peo­ple, includ­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kevin Rudd, Hugh Jack­man, the Queen, and those inside 10 Down­ing Street, do too.
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As for the mis­sion to erad­i­cate extreme poverty in his life­time, Evans says it just needs to start with a conversation.

“The real­ity is that 27,000 peo­ple con­tinue to die every day due to causes that can be pre­vented … it’s the great­est chal­lenge of our gen­er­a­tion and surely we need to be debat­ing in the pub­lic forum how we can end it in our lifetime.

“And that’s exactly what the Global Poverty Project is try­ing to achieve.”

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